<VV> FYI - Ethanol

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E15 will become available, not required; E10 will remain the norm for many
years. The only thing I ever did for my '65 Corsa 140 was replace my old,
cracked, and brittle rubber fuel lines with new fuel lines. I also replaced
the fuel filters about 1 month after I started using E10 in the mid-70's as
the E10 will free up some of the flaky rust in the tank and hard fuel lines.
This was in the mid 1970's.

About half the time since then, the car was driven four seasons in Iowa, the
other half four "seasons" in Southern California. Several round trips
between Iowa and California were made in the Corsa, through the Rockies on
I-80 w/o problems. Most trips through the Rockies were in July or August.

I found no need to do so, but some owners have re-jetted and adjusted the
timing. Others can give those details.

Some other models of cars have rubber floats for their carburators, and they
may need to be replaced with a brass or a modern formula rubber float.

Tony Hansen

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Ron <ronh at owt.com> wrote:

> Great, but Corvairs aren't and that's what we're about.  What does it take
> to run a Corvair with 15% Ethanol?
> RonH
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Pleau" <dpleau at wavecable.com>
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> > All cars made for years have been 10% Ethanol ready.
> >
> > dp
> >
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> > [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of corsaconvertible
> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:07 AM
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> > Since the government requires 10% ethanol, perhaps the government should
> > require all new engines to be 10% ethanol ready. I know, more government
> > involvement! It's not difficult for the manufacturers to do. In reality,
> > the
> > manufacturers should take it upon themselves to build ethanol ready
> > engines.
> > Or use an alternative fuel like propane as Lehr
> > http://www.golehr.com/products.shtml does.
> >
> >
> >
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